The Port Orchard officer, in a police vehicle with lights and sirens activated, was travelling north along Pottery Avenue in response to a call for backup at Forest Park Grocery on South Street, according to a news release. A suspect was resisting officers at that scene.

The second driver, an off-duty Gig Harbor officer in a personal vehicle, stopped and was attempting a left turn onto Pottery Avenue from westbound Lippert Drive when it was struck by the Port Orchard Police vehicle in the intersection.